Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical Wednesday of a Nevada ethics law that governs when lawmakers should refrain from voting on official business because they might have a conflict of interest.
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Oil giant BP and the Obama administration were among the winners of the Jefferson Muzzle awards, given Wednesday by a free-speech group to those it considered the worst First Amendment violators in 2010.
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The Los Angeles City Attorney's office is trying a new legal maneuver to try to stamp out graffiti — it's charging 10 graffiti writers with violating unfair competition laws because they're selling works on the strength of reputations built on vandalism.
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NBC's Pete Williams reports on a Supreme Court ruling that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist members of the Westboro Baptist Church who mount attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals.